We have a very light week this week, as the summer wraps up and we’re past the major license announcements of SDCC, Anime Expo and Otakon, so it’s time to get ready for the next wave of events!
Events News
Start by checking out Heidi MacDonald’s Comicsbeat report on Flamecon.
Girls Love Fest is fast approaching in the Tokyo area on September 9, 2018
New York Comic Con is in New York City on October 4-7.
Anime NYC is coming to New York on November 16-18.
And get those panel ideas in for Queers & Comics 2019 at NYU in NYC. Panel submissions are open until September 30!
Yuri Anime
Zac Bertschy has an Interview with Kase-san and Morning Glories Director Takuya Sato and Producer Yusuke Terada on ANN.
Egan Loo on ANN covers the new Bloom Into You anime cast and music announcements.
Yuri Manga
Via Alextasha, Yuri manga Pulse, Volume 4 is available for pre-order on Ratana Satis’ facebook page!
Two girls, one very high school girlish and one totally not, meet in Futaridashi ni Ochiru (ふりだしにおちる!) by Mushu.
Other News
For those of you looking for good research material – via James Welker, his chapter “From Women’s Liberation to Lesbian Feminism in Japan: Rezubian Feminizumu within and beyond the Ūman Ribu Movement in the 1970s and 1980s” in Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (2018) is now open access…”
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I don’t know if this is enough yuri, but today was also announced adaptation for one of Madoka’s spin-off https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-09-01/madoka-magica-magia-record- rpg-app-gets-2019-tv-anime / .136219
Thanks.
I was able to attend the Girl Love Fest at Tokyo.
It was a small event and a bit surprised to see lots of men attending.
Some of the artists that attended were: Nanzaki Iku-sensei (Doropanda Tours), Amano Shuninta-sensei, Takemiya Jin-sensei, Peach Pulsar, Neji-sensei, among others.
Most of Neji-sensei stuff got sold out quite fast. Among them some acrylic key holders and new works. I was lucky enough for her to sign my copy of Bocchi Kaibutsu to Moumoku Shoujo.
Sadly, no new works from Nanzaki-sensei but there’s hope there will be a new Doropanda Tours work on the winter Comiket.
Amano-sensei showed two new doujin for the event, as well as Peach Pulsar.
And Takemiya-sensei showed a preview for a tapestry she’ll sell in the next event she’ll attend.
Comic Zin also had a stand, selling past works of other authors (of course all of them Yuri), be it published manga or doujinshi. It was a great chance to get some works of past works from artists that didn’t attend this time.
There was also a stand (not sure if it was the company) selling official stuff from the visual game novel “Sono Hanabira Ni Kuchizuke Wo”, and other works they have done.
Another stand that caught my attention was one of a yuri board game. Now it’s been twice that I’ve seen it. I’m curious as to what it may be about. If I see the stand again in another event, I’ll ask for a card and more info about it.
Sadly, I couldn’t attend the After Event. Hopefully, someone who has attended these events can tell me what’s it about.
Of course there were other authors, I have the catalogue of the event, if anyone is interested to know who else attended.
Thank you! May I post this on the YNN report next week?
Sure! No problem.
Thanks!